CategoryLuxury Housing

Despite Real Estate’s NYC Election Despondency, Manhattan Sales Continued To Thrive

Manhattan Cash Sales Surge To A Record 69.1% Market Share Listing Inventory Saw Modest 3.1% Annual Gain As Luxury Fell 21.2% Sales Jumped 16.6% Annually To Highest Level In Nearly Two Years My headline is somewhat misleading. The Manhattan housing market had firm results for Q2 [gift link] in contrast with the ontheground sentiment of the real estate community. One thing I...

Luxury Housing Is Poised For Better Times Than The Rest

Wealth Gap Is Widening, And The USD Is Weakening, But No Expected Currency Play For Luxury Real Estate…Yet HighEnd Real Estate In Better Position To Weath Elevated Mortgage Rates Tariff Tantrums Will Keep Interest Rates Elevated In The Near Term A McKinsey report on the state of luxury showed how the value of luxury goods surged over the past five years. The fertile ground of an expanding wealth...

WSJ’s Mansion Global Becomes A Ten

Mansion Global Turns Ten And Is Aligned Witwi A Housing Market Segment Favored Over Next Several Years Despite Ongoing Media Disruption, There Are Countless High Quality Real Estate Sources There Are Excellent Tools Available To Manage The Tsunami Of Housing Information Let's take a quick break from the heavy topics of the past couple of weeks since it's Friday! Here's a little story. More than a...

When It Stopped Making Sense: NYC Now Has More People To Buy Strawberries At 3 AM

NYC’s Net Population Has Been Growing For The Past Two Years The Population Gains Largely Came From International Migration Anecdotal Real Estate Broker Feedback Seeing More International Buyers Validated By Data Before I moved to Manhattan, my Dad used to tell me that he could buy strawberries at 3 AM any time he wanted as a resident. After I moved there in 1986, I never had any urge to buy them...

Damaged: A $225 Million Sale Closed In Naples As The US Loses 20% Of Its Value

There Was A $225 Million Home Sale In Naples, The 2ndHighest In US History US Imports From China Plummeting, Projecting NearEmpty Store Shelves In A Few Weeks Last Week's Weakening Dollar Translates Into A 20% Drop In US Value Whenever I think of or use the word “Damaged,” I think of a wildly underrated DC punk album by Black Flag. For about 25 years I played tennis with a group of mid to...

Lon Gisland, A Tale Of Two Markets

Housing Prices Are Rising Sharply On Long Island And The Hamptons Sales In The Long Island Suburbs Are Falling While Rising In The Hamptons Wall Street Record Profits/Bonuses Expected To Drive More Hamptons Sales Despite Financial Market Volatility I first heard the band Beruit play live at Lincoln Center with another favorite band, Calexico. The venue overlooked Central Park, and the entire...

When Brooklyn Was The World: It’s Housing Market Defies Gravity

Brooklyn Is Going Through A Global Rebranding, So Housing Prices Continue To Soar Brooklyn Listing Inventory Is Consistent With LongTerm Norms, Inadequate For Years The OftenCited “One Quarter Of Americans Have An Ancestor Born In Brooklyn" Is Not Confirmable. The Brooklyn housing market has remained vibrant relative to the rest of New York City in good and bad economic times, and it remains...

The Griffin Effect + Tariff Squawking

Ken Griffin Has Had Significant Influence Over The US Super Luxury Market "Vertical Travel" Is An Urban Real Estate Commuting Phrase Tariffs Are A Huge US Policy Mistake, Says Everyone Yesterday, I promised I would take a short break from tariff talk, so consider today's Housing Notes as a partial palette cleanser. Admittedly, I've only eased off nominally since I included two mustwatch videos on...

Two Decades Of Manhattan Housing Market Performance Is Not Fishy

Since 2018, submarkets that experienced falling prices accounted for more than half of all markets. The difference between the share of falling markets by price and rising markets widened significantly over the decade. Market optics of the highend market smothered the impressions of the overall market. Yesterday our Manhattan Decade report was featured online in the New York Times (free link) and...

Werewolves Of High-End Housing: You’ve Already Let ‘Em In

Listing Inventory Skewing Much Higher In Price, As Prices Have Surged Over Five Years Portfolios Of Wealthy Skew To Stocks While The Middle Class Skews To Real Estate Wealthy Better Suited For This Economic Cycle Of Real Estate There was a great Wall Street Journal piece (free link) on the decline in available lower priced Miami home sales. It's the result of prices rising so quickly and a shift...